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10843 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Laura Ferrés  • Director of The Permanent Picture

Interview: Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

“I am not interested in making autobiographical films; I already spend enough time with myself”

The Catalonian director has crafted an experimental and genre-blending portrait of women from different generations  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Sylvain George  • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Interview: Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

“At night, the rules don’t apply”

The French director dives into darkness in his film about a group of kids from Morocco, dreaming of escaping to Europe yet still stuck in Melilla  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Radu Jude’s eighth fiction feature seems to imply that the apocalypse might not arrive as a spectacular big bang, but rather as a flood of stupidity – and it’s actually already here  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Pilar López de Ayala and Javier Rebollo return with Close to the Sultan

Pilar López de Ayala and Javier Rebollo return with Close to the Sultan

After a six-year hiatus, the actress is back performing in front of the camera again in this adventure flick, recently shot in Tunisia and marking the director’s return after a decade away  

11/08/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Spain

Review: Antarctica Calling

Review: Antarctica Calling

Luc Jacquet returns to the icy continent once again, but this time it is actually about the filmmaker’s personal journey that entices him to keep coming back  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Romain de Saint-Blanquat  • Director of Bitten

Interview: Romain de Saint-Blanquat • Director of Bitten

“Gothic literature had an influence on the aesthetics of the film as well as on the main character”

The French director breaks down his stylish and atmospheric feature debut, focusing on his protagonists, and his fascination for vampires and coming-of-age topics  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet Dreams

Interview: Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film and discusses the role of the past in the present  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: 5 Hectares

Review: 5 Hectares

French director Émilie Deleuze follows a 50-year-old in search of his own private Eden and stubborn to the point of jeopardising everything  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Sylvain George sets his gaze on a group of young migrants on the border between the African continent and Europe, shining a light on a daily existence rife with persistence, hope and painful utopias  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Eroticism, a recurring element in the Brazilian director’s filmography, serves as the backdrop for his eighth fiction feature  

09/08/2023 | Production | Funding | Brazil/Germany/France/UK

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